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Stories of art and artists (1887)

Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · Boston, Ticknor and company · leaf 40

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proud and insolent, evento the gods themselves. Leto had but two children,— Apollo, the god of the silver bow; and Artemis, or Diana, who was the archer-queen of Heaven.Amphion was the king and Niobe the queen of Thebes; so when theworship of Leto was established in that city, Niobe, who… … 22 STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS. before them as superior tu Leto, and said that the goddess had onlytwo children, while she. their queen, had fourteen lovely suns anddaughters, any one of whom was worthy of honor. The goddess Letowas so enraged by this, that she begged of Apollo and Artemis to…

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